274 College Road

Riverdale | built 1927

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1928
Julius Gregory completes a stone-and-stucco Medieval Revival house for coal manager Elmer Emery
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Designed by Julius Gregory under a 1926 building permit, this house was finished in 1928 for Elmer E. Emery, manager of the Burns Brothers Coal Company. Its front is faced almost entirely in fieldstone, with stucco and false half-timbering on the other sides, a gable roof with flared eaves, several dormers and a large fieldstone-and-brick chimney.
“…this house was complete d in 1928 for owner Elmer E. Emery, the manager of the Burns Brothers Coal Company.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
The Emery house is sold to John H. Rider
Completed for Elmer E. Emery in 1928, the house was sold in 1935 to John H. Rider. The Landmarks Preservation Commission traced the sale to a New York Times report of October 19, 1935, headlined "Properties Sold After Many Years."
“The house was sold in 1935 to one John H. Rider.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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